“The main thing it does is indicate the efforts we’re putting forth to enhance quality in our hospital are working,” BSA President and CEO Bob Williams said. “It’s not an award we applied for. We didn’t have a bunch of people send out applications. It’s just a validation that the quality programs we’re putting in place are working.”

To conduct the study, Truven researchers evaluated 2,922 short-term, acute-care, nonfederal hospitals. The researchers used public information, such as Medicare cost reports and patient satisfaction data from the Centers for Medicaid Services Hospital Compare website.

Truven claimed, based on the results of this year’s study, if all Medicare inpatients received the same level of care as those treated in facilities on the list:

■ More than 164,000 additional lives could be saved.

■ Nearly 82,000 additional patients could be complication-free.

■ $6 billion could be saved.

■ The average patient stay would decrease by half a day.

“The winners of the 100 Top Hospitals award have driven the national benchmarks higher every year for 20 years,” Truven Senior Vice President Jean Chenoweth said in announcing the list.

BSA’s appearance on the list is a “real testament to the people who work here,” spokeswoman Mary Barlow said.

Ardent Health Services of Nashville, Tenn., which owns a majority stake in BSA Health System, had another of its hospitals — Lovelace Westside Hospital in Albuquerque, N.M. — on the list.

BSA Health System includes the 445-bed BSA Hospital, Don & Sybil Harrington Cancer Center and other health system assets.